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Eating Disorders

i once had thought that i was far too fat, my greatest dread was going to the pool, and so for hours and hours, pensive i sat, and then i thought, ill just not eat at all! i dropped the pounds, i lost all the weight, slim again, my diet had worked a treat, but now i felt hungry, i ate and ate, but back up it all came, i could not eat. i became thinner and thinner, until, i was all but husk, only bones, and skin. my body killing me against my will, all this because i had sought to be thin. models so skinny led me to believe little was beautiful, oh how naive. john whitty

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 5/1/2009 7:35:00 AM
This is a wonderful poem. Amazing write! I used to not eat but my friends didnt let me get that bad after they ofund out about it they made me go get help for it. This is a beautliful write!
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Date: 4/19/2009 1:01:00 PM
they now starting to have models about a size 16 because of all the youngsters getting too thin, my heart is with you as I too was a yo yo dieter through peopels hurtful words but when I found God he is all i need the rest will be called to an account one day, in Gods' eyes you are a special treasure and always will be. anyway God bless you from diane
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Date: 4/19/2009 1:00:00 PM
i must agree with you there, but the poem is not about me, i had a good friend who was unhappy about her weight, she reads my poems, and i was hoping this would turn her away from not eating :)
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Date: 4/19/2009 12:57:00 PM
a beautiful written poem, I can imagine how you felt, my own sisters used to call me fat they even got their kids to call me aunty fat diane I used to eat chocholate for comfort food I was big because i was unhappy so ate and ate and ate then went to weight watchers and lost loads but was encouraged to the point I looked annorexic, but I am just fine now, God loves us for our heart, not our outside but what is deep within, true beauty comes from the heart, modles just out for money sad realy,
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